Vision
mHealth Initiative Inc (mHI), a membership organization incorporated in Massachusetts, USA, envisions the emerging mHealth Revolution. Cell phones and other mobile Devices (mDevices) are becoming prized tools of clinicians after initially being viewed as forbidden gadgets.
mDevices offer interoperability, provide the basis of mobile communications, allow access to the Internet and the huge scientific body of medicine, serve as documentation systems, and provide decision support guidance for care. But their most important benefit is in enabling Participatory Health, the new paradigm that involves healthy people, patients, wellness and care providers, payers, pharma, researchers and public health as active participants in a healthcare system that is open and transparent, with the patient at its center. Most of all, it allows new 24/7 communication patterns between healthcare participants, including observations of daily living (ODLs).
Book on mHealth now available
Claudia Tessier, president of mHealth Initiative, has authored the first comprehensive book on mHealth, Management and Security of Health Information on Mobile Devices, published by AHIMA.
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3rd mHealth Networking Conference
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Topics include
mHealth Unleashes Pharmacy 2.0
mHealth and the Wired Generation
Engaging Patients with Text, Email, and Social Media
mHealth by and for Women
The Information Society and Healthcare
and more.
What is mHealth?
mHealth, enabled by mobile phones and other wireless computing devices (mDevices), is the revolutionary adoption of new communication patterns in healthcare that is stimulating the introduction of Participatory Health. Enabled by mHealth, Participatory Health is transforming healthcare from a physician- and hospital-centric system to one that seeks to connect and coordinate the roles of all health participants, including patients, the wide range of healthcare providers, payers, pharma, wellness providers, and more.
mDevices enable healthcare professionals to communicate better with their colleagues, patients, and others such as payers.
Over a decade ago, the leaders of mHealth Initiative envisioned the impact of mobile phones in healthcare. Claudia Tessier served the Mobile Healthcare Allliance (MoHCA) as Executive Director and C. Peter Waegemann (EHR advocate for more than 30 years) was Chairman of the Board.
MoHCA influenced many healthcare providers in understanding and addressing electromagnetic interference (EMI), thus contributing to mobile phones transitioning from forbidden gadgets to prized clinical tools.
When mHealth Initiative started in 2008, mHealth was a new term in the United States health informatics community. Thanks to mHealth Initiative’s efforts, the term mHealth is widely accepted today.
Integrating mHealth into health informatics
mHealth Initiative leaders, Claudia Tessier and C. Peter Waegemann, together have more than six decades of experience in health informatics. Their thought leadership and expertise in digital healthcare documentation, EHRs/EMRs, PHRs, the CCR, HIT, the 4P*s, integrating “meaningful use”, and payment reform enable them to envision the mHealth ecosystem of the future. Consequently, mHealth Initiative’s vision reaches beyond the concepts of connected health, wireless health and telemedicine.
mHealth Initiative emphasizes user integration and implementation
mHealth Initiative sees the real mHealth revolution as leading to new two-way communication patterns between patients and providers as well as to greater collaboration among caregivers and other healthcare stakeholders. Additionally, mHealth stimulates development and integration of new tools of decision support into the healthcare process. In turn, mHealth enables implementation of EMR systems.
Leading the development of the mHealth ecosystem
mHealth Initiative invites interested providers, payers, developers, system integrators to join us in achieving the goals of an mHealth ecosystem, nationally and internationally. The mHealth ecosystem will integrate user needs, new solutions, required standards, regulatory issues, interoperability, secur ity, quality of service, and more in order to realize the full potential of mHealth to improve quality of care, enhance efficiency and reduce costs.